How to Use sicken in a Sentence

sicken

verb

• Many people sickened and died on the long voyage.
• The bacteria in the drinking water sickened the whole village.
• We were sickened by the reports of violence.
• They are thought to have been sickened from Sept. 6 to Oct. 28.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
• Among the 14 states listed on the CDC’s map, Ohio has 11 sickened, the most of the outbreak.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2024
• The helplessness of the young victims and the savagery of the attack sickened France.
  — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2023
• The prison guards brought her a milky porridge with a piece of oily fish that sickened her.
  — J Wortham, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• Of those sickened, 12 are from Ohio, according to the CDC.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The outbreak has sickened people from as young as less than a year to 87 years old.
  — Jonathan Lapook, CBS News, 15 June 2018
• One way to reduce the number of birds at your feeders is to sicken them.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 2 Feb. 2021
• The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 2021
• The strain has also sickened 67 people and caused one death.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
• So far, the outbreak has sickened people ages 12 to 84.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 June 2018
• Gambino rubs our noses in it, wants the viewer to be shocked and sickened by it.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• So far, three farmworkers have been sickened in the U.S., one in Texas and two in Michigan.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 5 June 2024
• And in Hawaii, the virus caused a popular hiking spot to close after dozens of campers were sickened with the virus.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
• It was closed after an E. coli outbreak that claimed the life of a two-year-old boy and sickened 3 others.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2019
• Nine people in eight states appear to have been sickened by their pet guinea pigs.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2018
• The Missouri patient was the 14th person in the U.S. sickened with bird flu since March, when the virus was detected in cows.
  — Lindsey Leake, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2024
• About 200 people were sickened in the E. coli outbreak and five people died.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2018
• Blooms also have been blamed for fish kills and can sicken swimmers.
  — CBS News, 22 Mar. 2018
• Still, Rogge and other researchers couldn’t say for certain what in the mussels would sicken the dogs.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 11 July 2018
• Christiansen said he had been sickened by the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month.
  — David Montero, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
• The outbreak has killed one person and sickened at least 75 others across 13 states.
  — Samuel Burke, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
• The cereal has been the subject of a recall since last month and has sickened 100 people.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• In past outbreaks, about 39 percent of those sickened died.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2018
• In the past two days, 14 more people have been added to the list of those sickened in a national E. coli outbreak that began in March.
  — Robert Anglen, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2018
• The storylines are enthralling, the outfits are sickening, and the balls?
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 20 Aug. 2019
• Koalas, on the other hand, are sickened by Chlamydia pecorum, Wildlife Health Australia says, which is the main cause of chlamydial infection and disease in the species.
  — Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 11 June 2025
• Dozens more schoolchildren have been sickened by norovirus at a Nevada County outdoor education school besieged by the virus in recent weeks just days after health officials gave it the latest all clear.
  — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2025